John Philips wrote:

> Peter, sorry if it appears that I'm using you as a target, but
> you just put a big bullseye on yourself :-)  If I understand
> correctly, you suggest running puppet individually on every
> single host and having the hosts query themselves, i.e. no
> central puppetmaster?  So, if I wanted to make a global change,
>  I'd have to somehow manually distribute new puppet manifests
> out to every single host.  That totally defeats what I see as
> the purpose of puppet - centralized management of hosts.

You would need to distribute the manifests to the hosts in some
way, yes, but that *can* be done automatically.  If you have a
shared filesystem (NFS, Lustre, GPFS, ...), you can put your
manifests there.  I do exactly that on two systems where I run
Puppet.  I know some people who run 'git pull' on the manifest
repository in the cron job that runs puppet.  Or you could use
rsync in your cron job.


         /Bellman

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